Italian Cat Inherits $13 million dollars

• BobYoMeowMeow wrote on 2011-12-13 01:54
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  Tommaso, a four-year-old, one-time stray from Rome, is thought to have become the world's richest cat.
  
  Since the death of his 94-year-old mistress last month, he has become a property magnate — or perhaps mognate — with flats and houses worth an estimated €10m scattered from Milan in the north to Calabria in the south.
  
  In a handwritten will, signed on 26 November, 2009, Tommaso's mistress — the childless widow of a successful builder — gave her lawyers the task of identifying "the animal welfare body or association to which to leave the inheritance and the task of looking after the cat Tommaso".
  
  One of the lawyers, Anna Orecchioni, told the Rome daily Il Messaggero they considered several organisations without getting adequate guarantees of the cat's future comfort and welfare. In the meantime, the old lady met a fellow cat-lover – named only as Stefania – in a park. "Sometimes I'd go to her house so my cat could play with Tommaso," Stefania said.
  
  As the old lady became increasingly frail, Stefania, a nurse, began to take care of her.
  
  "She needed someone to help her move around, shower and eat. I looked after until the end," she said.
  
  Under Italian law, animals cannot inherit directly. But they can be beneficiaries if a suitable trustee is found. The elderly widow decided to entrust the cat – and his fortune – to Stefania.
  
  Tommaso's trustee, who is now looking after him an undisclosed address outside Rome, said: "I had no idea the signora had such wealth."
  
  But the fortune pales by comparison with that of Gunther IV, an Alsatian who inherited from his father Gunther III, the pet of a German countess. According to the Pet Gazette, he is worth around $372m.
  
  The richest cat was previously thought to be Blackie, who was left £9m by his reclusive British owner in 1988.

  
  
  
  http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/dec/09/italian-cat-inherits-fortune
  this cat is now in the 1%
• Cucurbita wrote on 2011-12-13 02:00
  Dat rich cat
  
  

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• Kingofrunes wrote on 2011-12-13 02:03

  Quote from Cucurbita;689946:

  Dat rich cat
  
  

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  You know I was just thinking of this. This movie is 100% appropriate for this thread. Minus the crazed butler trying to get rid of the cats so he could get the fortune.
  
  I think when I die, I'll leave my wealth to my cat as well. Just not sure how that works.
• chaolin wrote on 2011-12-13 02:07
  That cat has cool looking eyes :o
• Cucurbita wrote on 2011-12-13 02:17

  Quote from Kingofrunes;689950:

  You know I was just thinking of this. This movie is 100% appropriate for this thread. Minus the crazed butler trying to get rid of the cats so he could get the fortune.
  
  I think when I die, I'll leave my wealth to my cat as well. Just not sure how that works.

  
  
  If I was the mistress's closest person and a loyal butler, and she puts her cat in her will for 13 million dollars, I'd probably do something crazy too.
• BobYoMeowMeow wrote on 2011-12-13 02:19
  the cat is surprised that kitae has seen the aristocats
• Sedia wrote on 2011-12-13 02:22
  So what's the cat supposed to do with the money?
• Armi wrote on 2011-12-13 02:59
  Now it all comes together, how supervillians fund their extravagant exploits and why they all seem to have cats.
• Adelynn wrote on 2011-12-13 03:06
  If those eyes are real, they are intense.
  
  Also, I am a cat person, but why? lol.
• Xemnas wrote on 2011-12-13 03:16

  Quote from Adelynn;690026:

  If those eyes are real, they are intense.
  
  Also, I am a cat person, but why? lol.

  
  When you're old you no tink good
• Adelynn wrote on 2011-12-13 04:10
  I know plenty of sane older people. =<
• Mrlucky77 wrote on 2011-12-13 04:36
  The person was probably lonely and only had the cat.
  
  When it dies, it will be given to state or charities.
  
  

  To my loyal butler, You There, for his decades of service, I leave a pittance, to be paid in twenty equal installments of one-twentieth of a pittance each.

• Chillax wrote on 2011-12-13 04:48
  Stefania must be excited about her newfound wealth. I wonder how much money was allotted for the cat and how much for Stefania, although she might be paid handsomely for her caretaking.
  
  All I can think of when reading
  
  

  Quote from The Guardian:

  Tommaso's trustee, who is now looking after him an undisclosed address outside Rome, said: "I had no idea the signora had such wealth."

  
  
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• Hiccup wrote on 2011-12-13 08:35
  Crazy cat lady
• Zid wrote on 2011-12-13 21:38
  Let no corruption mark the eyes of p- Okay, whatever.
  
  Affording to dine on the greatest of meat forever sounds like a cat's dream.